Carbohydrate-active enzyme glycosyltransferase family 8 (GT8) includes the plant galacturonosyltransferase1-related gene
family of proven and putative a-galacturonosyltransferase (GAUT) and GAUT-like (GATL) genes. We ...

Background: Genome-wide studies have already shed light into the evolution and enormous
diversity of the viral world. Nevertheless, one of the unresolved mysteries in comparative genomics
today is the abundance of ORFans ...

Background:The origin of microbial ORFans, ORFs having no detectable homology to other
ORFs in the databases, is one of the unexplained puzzles of the post-genomic era. Several
hypothesis on the origin of ORFans have ...

Background
Enzymes of the cellulose synthase (CesA) family and CesA-like (Csl) families are responsible for the synthesis of celluloses and hemicelluloses, and thus are of great interest to bioenergy research. We studied ...

Background: The cellulose synthase superfamily has been classified into nine cellulose synthaselike
(Csl) families and one cellulose synthase (CesA) family. The Csl families have been proposed
to be involved in the ...

Aphanizomenon flos-aquae is a toxic filamentous cyanobacterium that causes water blooms in freshwaters across the globe. We present the draft genome sequence of the A. flos-aquae strain NIES-81, which was determined by 454 ...

Regulons, as groups of transcriptionally co-regulated operons, are the basic units of cellular response systems in bacterial
cells. While the concept has been long and widely used in bacterial studies since it was first ...

Nucleotide-diphospho-sugars (NDP-sugars) are the building blocks of diverse polysaccharides and glycoconjugates in all
organisms. In plants, 11 families of NDP-sugar interconversion enzymes (NSEs) have been identified, ...